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The Genetic Metabolic Diseases Advisory Committee will meet on Friday to discuss Zevra’s modified scale to describe the efficacy of its drug candidate for the treatment of Niemann-Pick disease type C.
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The record-setting government shutdown was just the latest blow to the U.S. biopharma industry. When science funding becomes a casualty of political gridlock, we lose valuable talent, erode public trust and jeopardize our position as a global leader in innovation.
At one point in merger negotiations with Novartis, Avidity CEO Sarah Boyce and her team walked, cutting off access to a data room and moving on to a capital raise.
Previous mega blockbusters took years to reach their peak sales. Lilly’s tirzepatide franchise is on course to exceed them just a few years in.
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The pharmaceutical giant will pay $28 a share to acquire Ambrx’s pipeline of ADCs, particularly its lead candidate for prostate cancer.
The Inflation Reduction Act, “march-in rights” to take back patents and M&A were among the issues discussed at a Sunday panel in San Francisco ahead of Monday’s start of the J.P. Morgan conference.
A day after inking an AI deal with Alphabet’s Isomorphic Labs, Novartis is back at it, acquiring Calypso Biotech and tying up with Shanghai Argo in two RNA-i-focused pacts.
Brand pharmas not only leverage ancillary patents but sometimes hide or misrepresent information to the U.S. patent office in order to extend market exclusivity and high prices.
The IPO window is starting to crack open this year, with Metagenomi and ArriVent making their offerings ahead of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
The multimillion-dollar collaboration will develop small molecule drugs against undisclosed targets.
The patient deaths were deemed unrelated to Vertex’s investigational islet cell therapy, but the study will be halted while regulatory authorities and an independent data monitoring committee review the findings.
The state must submit additional information about the drugs it intends to import before the first shipments are sent to the U.S.